1/4/18

Shea (and all of us) love the movie Book of Life about Dia de los Muertos with a love triangle, renditions of Mumford and Son songs and a little Radiohead- what more could you want?

It was kind of like the first Coco and it has almost the exact same Land of the Remembered feel with the magical colors and floating lanterns and flags and lights.

It is beautiful.

We tried to recreate it as best we could and I never want to take the decorations down. It was just so magical. The pictures really dont do it justice. If we had known that this was her party theme when the real Dia de los Muertos was going on, I could have really stocked up on stuff, but we found what we could and I am definitely saving the decorations for every year.

My friends from school who grew up in Mexico loaned us some of the stuff that they own and use for parties and it just made the party. Jeff got a poncho and we had a sombrero and serving dishes and a guitar! It was amazing. And Jan made Shea a Maria- main girl who every body loves- costume and it was perfection!

Then we busted out a piñata (even though Jeff said that is probably mixing up Mexican customs. I feel like they probably had a lot of piñata in the Land of the Remembered).

Shea loved the piñata and everyone loved helping her break it.
It really was just so much fun.
Then we sang to her on a cake that she and sawyer made with jeff earlier that day. And sang again and again. She loveddddd it. Ate it all up. Until the last time when we dared sing to Victoria. Then it was almost as bad as last year when sass tried to blow out her candles and help her. bahahhah!!

Happy birthday Shea.
I can not believe that you are 4. You bring such joy and spunk and gentleness and love and also opinions that you hold to very tightly. You have shown me what it means to step out of my comfort zone and how much joy that can bring as I have watched you have to go out of yours and seen you shine. You have taught me patience and you bring me so much joy. To be loved by you is truly an honor and I am so so thankful you are mine!